Indian households' investment preferences
Subtitle: with special reference to debt market instruments based on the 3rd All India household investors survey
By: L.C. Gupta, C.P. Gupta, Naveen Jain.
Contributors: Gupta, C. P.; Jain, Naveen.; Society for Capital Market Research and Development.
Publisher: Society for Capital Market Research and Development
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 154
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: 1 Object and scheme of study; title: Object of study; title: Chapter scheme; title: 2 How retail investors; title: view bond investment; title: Introduction; title: Main findings; title: Comparison among bond categories; title: Investment intentions; title: Market penetration; title: Income-classwise analysis; title: Market for private corporate bonds; title: Bond safety versus liquidity; title: Macro policies towards bond market; title: Yield curve; title: Chakravarty Committee; title: Government bonds to be retailed; title: Mutual fund debt schemes; title: Final comments; title: 3 Why investors are disenchanted; title: with private-sector bonds?; title: Investors' feed-back; title: Bond defaults; title: A worsening situation; title: 4 Bonds vs. shares and other; title: investment types; title: Bonds at the lowest end; title: Differences among income-classes; title: Allocations to various investments; title: Special importance of DFI bonds; title: Changed attitudes towards shares; title: Concluding comments; title: 5 The weak influence of credit; title: rating in India; title: Most investors don't know credit rating; title: Influence of credit rating on investors; title: Concluding comments; title: 6 Retail investors' preferences; title: among bond schemes; title: Zero-coupon vs. regular income bonds; title: Desired periodicity of interest payment; title: Other bond schemes; title: Maturity preference of retail investors; title: Bond market too fragmented; title: 7 Diversification of retail investors'; title: bond and share portfolios; title: Bond portfolios; title: Share portfolios; title: The change during 1990-97; title: 8 Geographic distribution of; title: bondowners, shareowners and; title: UTI unitholders; title: Geographic spread of bondholders; title: and shareholders; title: Spread of UTI unitholders; title: India-USA comparison; title: Investing in shares and bonds still; title: an urban phenomenon; title: Note to Chapter 8; title: The number of shareowners; title: and bondowners in india; title: Shareowners' population; title: Historical growth; title: Two methods used; title: Bondowners' population; title: 10 A socio-economic angle; title: Introduction; title: Erosion of investors' confidence; title: Causes behind such erosion; title: Need for reviewing tax concessions; title: Several policy issues involved; title: Concluding observations; title: Appendix: Methodology and sample; title: Index.